[open-cobol-list] Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] open-cobol-0.9.6

[Bernard Giroud]

Keisuke Nishida a écrit :

> At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:40:17 -0400,
> David Essex wrote:
> >
> > Some areas where I would like to see more cooperation are the following.
> >
> > - The NIST test suite
> > - SORT/MERGE utility
> >   (Some thing like CA-So*t, Syncs*rt, ...)
> > - Indexed/Relative file utility
> >   (ISAM, C-IS*M to the Xopen standard with file locks etc.)
> >
> > In my view the above are relatively independent projects which could easily
> > be shared between projects.
> >
> > For example both the SORT/MERGE and indexed/Relative file utilities could
> > be used as a stand alone program or as a library used by any of the
> > projects run-time.
>
> Right.  Should we start a new project, like cobol-utils, which
> shares common utilities, libraries, and test suites?
>

Yes, I think that it should definitely be another project.

>
> > As for the embedded SQL pre-processor for COBOL, this is also a separate
> > project, a rather large project.
> >
> > The problem here is that each database has a different internal API. So to
> > create a generic SQL pre-processor in my view is not realistic.
> >
> > Yes, one could use ODBC, but there some performance issues there.
>
> I do not think performance is a big issue at this moment.
> Having a generic interface that works is better than nothing.
> We can improve the interface when performance really become
> an issue.
>
> Many databases seem to support ODBC on Linux already.  What
> about having a preprocessor and a run-time library that
> support ODBC?
>

I agree that ODBC should be a prime issue: availability first,
performance next if needed.

>
> Keisuke
>
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Bernard